Question: 1. Understand what ABC is, why it is used, and how it differs from the traditional volume-based cost systems.
2. Know how to apply ABC to assign indirect costs to products or services. This includes
- identifying and classifying activities and assigning indirect costs to those activities; and
- forming cost pools and assigning activities to individual product or services, including selection of appropriate cost drivers.
3. Be able to calculate gross profit under both the traditional volume-based cost system and ABC.
4. Understand what activity-based-management is.
5. Know what TQM and the four types of quality costs are.
6. Know what target costing and JIT are.